AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s third-largest gold producer, has hired banks to seek buyers or partners for assets in the Americas in a bid to reduce billions of dollars of debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Colombia is unlikely to immediately cut its hefty defense budget if a peace a deal is reached with Marxist guerrillas, said two senior ministers, even as analysts say the decline in oil prices will squeeze government finances.

President Juan Manuel Santos said his government is pursuing a bilateral cease-fire with Colombia’s largest rebel group, in what he said would be an important step toward ending a half century of conflict.

My move to Dallas after five years in Venezuela and Colombia was fraught with worries about lifestyle change. Not my lifestyle. I was born and raised in Arizona, so was certain Texas would fit me fine, and it has. Instead, my angst was over my dogs—exPETriates if you will. I felt they wouldn't cope with what would be an insulated,...

The expulsion by Colombia of two Venezuelan activists--both of whom were being detained here--has fueled a backlash against Colombia's government for handing them over to President Nicolás Maduro's administration.

Colombia’s largest Marxist rebel group says that it will embark on a unilateral, indefinite cease-fire beginning Saturday as a way to propel peace negotiations with President Juan Manuel Santos’s government.